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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Sudan to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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